Hacking 3DS Homebrew Channel!

[Sychophantom]

What was this topic about again?

Someone may or may not have done something. Most are curious. Most have no clue what was actually done. Some just want free games and think they can demand get them with enough badly spelled posts about how cool it would be if it was true. Others just post for lulz.

I may have over-simplified the thread, but it is pretty accurate.

 

[SifJar]

What was this topic about again?

Someone may or may not have done something. Most are curious. Most have no clue what was actually done. Some just want free games and think they can demand get them with enough badly spelled posts about how cool it would be if it was true. Others just post for lulz.

I may have over-simplified the thread, but it is pretty accurate.

Not accurate, "someone" (i.e. neimod) did do this.

 

[TheCasketMan]

What was this topic about again?

Someone may or may not have done something. Most are curious. Most have no clue what was actually done. Some just want free games and think they can demand get them with enough badly spelled posts about how cool it would be if it was true. Others just post for lulz.

I may have over-simplified the thread, but it is pretty accurate.

i bet that almost everyone in these forums want the 3DS cracked to play free game, and to be honest I am one of them. I will be impressed if I see someone with a hacked PSP or a DS flashcard with no pirated games on them, and the "legally backed up" excuse doesn't count.

 

[Talton]

wow... 33,000 Views, i wonder howmany of those are members
and if they are unique hits

 

[EyKcir]

Hm, a very big thread.

I read that the pic is no fake, but i can't find a answer how it is able.
Can anyone tell me how neimod made this?

Thx

 

[Wizerzak]

wow... 33,000 Views, i wonder howmany of those are members
and if they are unique hits

Well it goes to show how much money would be made by whoever develops a card for the 3DS. (Hopefully this might spur some people on).

 

[Cyan]

He created a Ram reader/writer by disassembling all the hardware and creating and inserting his own in the middle.
He can see and modify what's happening in real time in the memory.

You can see picture of his own hardware here :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neimod/6487813587/in/photostream


Edit:
And for users who think that the previous "success" was already rewriting the RAM, it was not.
The december's success was booting the Console successfully with his RAM reader/dumper attached at the place of the real RAM chipset.

This new thread is about successfully modifying a data in memory which is visually noticeable on the 3DS. (changing the displayed tooltip's text)

 

[Wizerzak]

He created a Ram reader/writer by disassembling all the hardware and creating and inserting his own in the middle.
He can see and modify what's happening in real time in the memory.

You can see picture of his own hardware here :
http://www.flickr.co.../in/photostream

Woah that's a lot of glue O.o

 

[synce]

Interesting pics, this kind of reminds me when geohot first started tinkering with the ps3. Hopefully we can say goodbye to region locks by 2013

 

[Janthran]

Interesting pics, this kind of reminds me when geohot first started tinkering with the ps3. Hopefully we can say goodbye to region locks by 2013

That's a lot of hope.

 

[Talton]

He created a Ram reader/writer by disassembling all the hardware and creating and inserting his own in the middle.
He can see and modify what's happening in real time in the memory.

You can see picture of his own hardware here :
http://www.flickr.co.../in/photostream

I dont think a hacked 3DS is not going to be portable xD
Excelent work so far
Looks like alot of fun

 

[sightlight]

I like this work. Consideing how famous hacking the 3DS is as of now, I dont see why 2013 would be imposible, though hard.
I remember having my "SC DS ONE" with no comercial roms on it. I was more than happy with PAlib contrutions.
I do admit I went for 1 or 2 games though. I could say that I can actully decide whether "Pirate" or "Homebrew".
I would run some Linux on my 3DS. If not all the time. There are some Linux free games out there. And yes, I say this in case Linux fully support the Nintendo 3DS. That and the www.raspberrypi.org made a ARM11 Linux, Optimized for 44mb of ram,Open source. Dont know why Users here havent check that out in their download section.

I dont have much expirience but when this gets hacked, I would attenp to compile the source for .3ds
Most probably will fail but At least I will try.

 

[Naridar]

Shoot me if I say something utterly stupid, but...

So if I get this right, Neimod has full access to the 3DS RAM (including read/write). Technically, is it possible to figure out the pointers (which point to the location of the system menu data for example) and rewrite them to point at something else, e.g. the location of the system's private key? Or is it not stored on the internal memory of the console (as in, at the same place the firmware is stored)?

 

[sightlight]

I think he has access, just doesnt know how do it. He would need an exploit like file to obtain the adresses to inject a new firmware.(CFW). "thats what I think" can be nastinly wrong.

 

[TheZander]

Is there a reason you start your lines with the letter "I" Or is that just how it worked out.

I like this work. Consideing how famous hacking the 3DS is as of now, I dont see why 2013 would be imposible, though hard.
I remember having my "SC DS ONE" with no comercial roms on it. I was more than happy with PAlib contrutions.
I do admit I went for 1 or 2 games though. I could say that I can actully decide whether "Pirate" or "Homebrew".
I would run some Linux on my 3DS. If not all the time. There are some Linux free games out there. And yes, I say this in case Linux fully support the Nintendo 3DS. That and the www.raspberrypi.org made a ARM11 Linux, Optimized for 44mb of ram,Open source. Dont know why Users here havent check that out in their download section.

I dont have much expirience but when this gets hacked, I would attenp to compile the source for .3ds
Most probably will fail but At least I will try.

I think he has access, just doesnt know how do it. He would need an exploit like file to obtain the adresses to inject a new firmware.(CFW). "thats what I think" can be nastinly wrong.

 

[Maxternal]

Finding and changing text so that it says something is a homebrew channel when it's not is one thing (programmers always seem to think it's easiest to just use ASCII or some other recognized standard for some reason so finding text becomes painfully obvious to someone who knows what they're doing). Figuring out out how which bits and bytes correspond to which assembler commands in the 3DS's machine language and which bytes are actually pointers or whatnot is quite another thing.

I must say, though, he is QUITE on his way to figuring it out.
Edit : and assuming they really DO have a similar processor to the NDS and not just a separate one for backwards compatibility (I don't know much about 3DS hardware) it could help a bit to know what he's looking at.

 

[sightlight]

Dude, my English is not that fluent. My apologies.

 

[Deleted-236924]

I will be impressed if I see someone with a hacked PSP or a DS flashcard with no pirated games on them, and the "legally backed up" excuse doesn't count.

Why not?
If they're legally backed up, then they're not pirated.

 

[TheCasketMan]

it is "legal" to back up your own copy, but other people use dumpers to post the copies all over the internet, so at the same time it can also not be legal from the government or developers point of view. Confusing right

 

[gamefan5]

it is "legal" to back up your own copy, but other people use dumpers to post the copies all over the internet, so at the same time it can also not be legal from the government or developers point of view. Confusing right

That's their problem. I back up my own games, so don't you dare tell me that it's piracy because I do NOT distribute backed up copies.